Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests

IF 1.4 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Iris Hübscher, Cristina Sánchez-Conde, Joan Borràs-Comes, L. Vincze, P. Prieto
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Abstract

Abstract Recent cross-linguistic research has demonstrated that speakers use a prosodic mitigation strategy when addressing higher status interlocutors by talking more slowly, reducing the intensity and lowering the overall fundamental frequency (F0). Much less is known, however, about how politeness-related meaning is expressed multimodally (i.e., combining verbal and multimodal channels). The present study investigates how Catalan native speakers encode politeness-related meanings through facial and body cues. We test whether speakers apply a gestural mitigation strategy and use specific hedging devices in socially distant situations (e.g., when asking an older person of higher status for a favor). Twenty Catalan speakers were video-recorded while participating in a discourse elicitation task where they were required to produce requests in polite and non-polite contexts. In the resulting recordings, a set of 21 facial and body cues associated with speech were coded and analyzed. The results show that politeness-related meanings are expressed through gestural mitigation strategies that go hand-in-hand with previously reported prosodic mitigation strategies.
多模式缓解:面部和身体暗示如何在加泰罗尼亚语请求中体现礼貌
摘要最近的跨语言研究表明,说话者在与地位较高的对话者交谈时,通过放慢语速、降低强度和降低总体基频(F0)来使用韵律缓解策略。然而,关于礼貌相关的意义是如何以多种方式表达的(即,将言语和多种方式相结合),人们知之甚少。本研究调查了以加泰罗尼亚语为母语的人如何通过面部和身体暗示来编码礼貌相关的含义。我们测试说话者是否在社交距离较远的情况下(例如,当向地位较高的老年人请求帮助时)应用手势缓解策略并使用特定的对冲设备。20名讲加泰罗尼亚语的人在参与话语启发任务时被录制了视频,要求他们在礼貌和非礼貌的背景下提出请求。在最终的录音中,对一组21个与语音相关的面部和身体线索进行了编码和分析。结果表明,礼貌相关的意义是通过手势缓解策略来表达的,而手势缓解策略与先前报道的韵律缓解策略是相辅相成的。
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自引率
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Politeness Research responds to the urgent need to provide an international forum for the discussion of all aspects of politeness as a complex linguistic and non-linguistic phenomenon. Politeness has interested researchers in fields of academic activity as diverse as business studies, foreign language teaching, developmental psychology, social psychology, sociolinguistics, linguistic pragmatics, social anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, communication studies, and gender studies. The journal provides an outlet through which researchers on politeness phenomena from these diverse fields of interest may publish their findings and where it will be possible to keep up to date with the wide range of research published in this expanding field.
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